4 hrs solo from Mosquito Flats. Great climb, except for the loose crap right above the glacier and before hitting the summit ridge. The airy bridge wasn't quite a knife-edge, only exposed on the right side - i felt cheated! hey, I paid for my exposure on *both* sides! : ]

From Mosquito Flat. Soft snow from Mills Lake, nice glissade back down. We took care exiting the snow onto the sandy stuff, but the ridge went well. Straight-forward short class three. We downclimbed (as the guides say) to bypass the narrow ridge, just walked over the top of it on the way back. Fun!

Not sure where the class 3 is; this all seemed class 2 to me. There was some crappy rock exiting from the snow, but the rest of the route really wasn't too loose, at least in comparison to Mills from a few days previously. Guess it helps to climb Mills to recalibrate one's expectations for Sierra routes. :-)

A great outting with SummitPoster's Martin (mrolph) and Samantha (Samantha3). We hiked in from the locked gate at the Rock Creek Pack Station and summited on Saturday. We spent the night at high camp, and hiked out Sunday morning.

We have just retiurned from the trip to Mount Abbot in Rock Creek. The gate is still closed at the pack station, so it adsanother 1.5 miles one way before you reach the Mosquitoe Flat trailhead. Hiked up the Mono Pass to Ruby Lake (still frozen) and camped the small lake higher than MIlls Lake. Summited in 3:30 hrs from the base camp. The snow was well consolidated and there ws postholing at all. The snowline 10800-11000 ft.

Miguel Carmona and I climbed this interesting summit from our camp at Dade Lake. The approach couloir is 35-40 degree steep and in late season requires ice axe and crampons. There are really two spires at the col. We climbed the higher, western summit. From the col, climb up and around (steep 4th) to the SW side of the western summit. From the notch between the two summits, climb steep 5.7 edge to the summit. In 1996, the only note on the western summit, was in old film canister. It said that in 1964, Dave McDonald and David Harvey climbed the route. We descended to the Abbot/Petit Griffon Col, scrambled up to the summit of Abbot and went down the NE Couloir which is an ugly pile of dirt and rocks when not covered with snow. This would be a great day outing for anyone wanting to climb a nice, airy, technical climb in the area. Recommended.